robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
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Nieno, to też szkodzi klientowi przez podniesienie ceny przeglądów.
> but those also have relatively glacial movement speeds.
Do you mean linear movement speed, rotational movement speed, or both?
Academia provides incentives to researchers to be less careful though (pressure to publish with very weak feedback loops from anything that happens after publication). Even if researchers don't act on those individually, they create a filtering system where more careful ones are (on the margin) more likely to quit academia.
There are also things that are kinda inbetween: when the way the configuration is interpreted (in custom software) makes some of its features unusable, so that is they get used you can be mostly certain that this is misconfiguration that leads to escalations (things like constraints on ACLs that cannot be evaluated in a TOCTOU-free way) or makes them very misleading so that most places where this is configured is a misconfiguration.
robryk
boosted
I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parti
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You might wish to split the survey across people who speak English natively and ones who don't, because there's a visibility bias involved (your survey is less likely to be seen by people who don't speak English natively and don't follow non-native-language posters).
Wouldn't magnetizing the disk in a direction orthogonal to the normally expected one achieve the same aim?
Sokath, his eyes opened!
Is it until the next setpoint, even if the next setpoint is less than 5 minutes into the future?
@b0rk Similar to branch histories, having symlinks from someplace in a commit to its parents might be helpful.
Ah... at a single frequency.
But still you can model the coil as a lumped component with some impedance, right? (Or, worse case, as a 3-point network with the points representing the ends of the coil and the ground plane under the coil.)
Do you have one or two such books to recommend?
I understand the first part, but am somewhat surprised about the having to relearn things part: I would expect that -- if we assume that we've magically prevented the problem of being overwhelmed with input -- more input of different categories would not make things worse[1]. Is this about some different kind of being overwhelmed, or am I looking at the whole thing from a weird perspective?
[1] I don't really know of any situations when something like this happened to me or someone I know though; closest ones I can recall are friends getting better sense of smell after septum surgery and getting measurement tools as a kid -- and they both are different in ways that obviously can matter a lot.
Ah, I see: the lack of ability to turn things off seems to be the most important downside. Thanks.
I'm curious about this approach. When I think about some sense I don't have (say, ability to see polarization of light[0], or ability to feel magnetic fields), I would nearly always like to be able to at least experience having it once, and usually would prefer to have it (as long as I could ignore it whenever I wanted to). I can think of a few reasons I would not want to have a sense: either because it gives me information I would not want to have to keep interactions with other people reasonable (so, no mind reading) or because it would be extremely noisy in my daily life (so, preference for being able to ignore it).
It seems to me that you're clearly thinking in some other way. Would you mind pointing out what you think are the important differences?
[0] Haidinger's brush nonwithstanding
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
